From: mahmoud genidy (ccie.mahmoud@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 22:47:07 ARST
Jason,
If you finished the questions for example in 15 minutes, Can I proceed to
the LAB config work, Or I will have to spend the whole 30minutes answering
the questions before proceeding to the LAB config work?
Mahmoud
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com>wrote:
> True, but from my experience the 30 minutes is NOT in addition to your
> normal lab time; it's just a dedicated 30 minutes OF your lab time. The
> voice and security folks were typing away madly doing their labs while the
> RS folks were doing the questions. Whether you know the answers or not
> though, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to do them all. There are
> no references available for them. You'll either know the anwers or not.
>
> Jason
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Piotr <usaccie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't stress about the questions. They are short answer questions for one
>> question I answered with 2 words. If you are ready for the lab the questions
>> are what you studied anyway so don't stress about them. Focus on your lab
>> strategy.
>>
>> You can can go back and forth to each question and change your answer and
>> you have an half hour to answer them.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, TCP IP4 <tcp.ip4@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> Do you take turn to answer the open ended questions or you did that in
>>> your lab workstation? Can I ask proctor if I need more
>>> clarifications?
>>>
>>> Thanks and Congrats!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Jason Madsen <madsen.jason@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > No, there are no references allowed for the questions. They never
>>> > clarified about the points or weights for the questions. They really
>>> didn't
>>> > provide any information about that part of it at all. I wish I knew.
>>> > Although the questions are "open-ended", everyone should be prepared to
>>> > answer very specific questions. I think that's about all I can say.
>>> >
>>> > Jason
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM, mahmoud genidy <ccie.mahmoud@gmail.com
>>> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> I agree with you that you may not be lucky and get the question in
>>> some
>>> >> area you are not well prepared for.
>>> >>
>>> >> But will we have access to the DOC CD during the open-ended questions
>>> >> section as well?
>>> >>
>>> >> Also how many points or wehight does this section have?
>>> >>
>>> >> Mahmoud.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Jason Madsen <
>>> madsen.jason@gmail.com>wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Hi All, I was actually trying to avoid talking about the Open Ended
>>> >>> question, because I don't know what the NDA even allows me to discuss
>>> or
>>> >>> not
>>> >>> discuss about them and even though I just had them I still don't know
>>> much
>>> >>> about how they are used in the testing process. I will say that
>>> >>> personally
>>> >>> the questions were not difficult, but I'm sure that there's is a very
>>> huge
>>> >>> pool of them so in my opinion there's no telling what a person may
>>> get. I
>>> >>> still don't even know how they're graded or how that grade, if it
>>> exists,
>>> >>> affects your overall lab results. Maybe they're being vague about
>>> things
>>> >>> on
>>> >>> purpose...I don't know. They are, just as their name implies,
>>> open-ended.
>>> >>> No multiple choice...no interviews...just questions that you read and
>>> >>> provide a typed response to. I agree with Cisco's statement, that
>>> CCIE
>>> >>> candidates *should *be able to answer them without much difficulty,
>>> but
>>> >>> what
>>> >>> if someone just so happens to get the handful of questions that they
>>> >>> hadn't
>>> >>> prepared for as much as they should have even though they may have
>>> spent a
>>> >>> year or more studying / testing / labbing? I'm sure something needs
>>> to
>>> >>> be
>>> >>> done if there are integrity problems with the lab material, but I
>>> just
>>> >>> don't
>>> >>> know that these open ended questions is the solution they're looking
>>> for.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Jason
>>> >>>
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